The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-02
SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY. OCTOBER 1887

visitors hurried to the train. and as
soon as they could be freed from the
surrounding multitude started for ST.
| Louis
The train left Terre Haute fifty-si1
minutes lateA. AS it moved off hundreds
Of hands were stretched upward, but
the President refused to shake them
firm the moving train. The jam at
the speaking platform was terrible.
On the way TO the station middle
aged enthusiast grabbed the rear OF
the Presidents carriage, and resisted
all endeavors to make HIM let go. Two
or three of the mounted escorts tried to
ride him down. but he cursed them
savsgely and refused to bulge. Finally,
Mrs. Cleveland turned to him and said:
Please let CO." and the fellow
dropped and skunk away in the
darkness. The throng, though
turbulent and wildly demonstrative,
was harmless and good natured
During the absence of the excursion
lists from the train considerable dltf1-
Guilty was experienced by the railroad
people in protecting it from a mob of
vandals, who remained at the station.
One man was caught trying to chip
of piece of the Presidents car with a
big carving knife, as memento. There
were bontires, torch and Chinese Ian
tern displays and brass band serenades
at nearly all the stations between Terre
HaHte and st. Louis. At Ell ugham,
ILL.,, platform gave way, and thirty or
forty people disappeared. Their fall
was not more than two or three feet,
and so far as learned no one was hurt.
The President arrived in East st.
Louis at IL. 15 pm, and ahghted at
the eastern abutment of the bridge,
where he was met by the citizens
committee. Mayor Francis sccompa-
MED the President and wife, and with
guard of twenty police the party star ed
across the bridge. Their appearance
on the bridge was the signal for
burst of cheers and glare of fireworks.
The walls of the bridge were crowded
with people. A banner was stretched
across the bridge at the Missouri
line Welcome to Missouri" At the
entrance to the city dense mass Uf
people INSTRUCTED the road, but a charge
of the mounted police cleared them
away and cheers swell, d into an ovrtion
as the party passed the gates at the
east end of the bridge. The Illumination
was grand. Leaving the crowd behind,
the party drove out to Lucas Place, to
tHS dOu1C w mdyO1 H4dASASt UAOoo
guests the President and wife will
remain until Monday. To-mor-
row they will attend services
at the Washington Presbyterian
church. The afternoon and evening
will be spent privately as at home. On
Monday morning they will be escorted
to the fair grounds, it being children's
day. Three thousand of them will sing
as the city guests enter the fair grounds.
Returning. Mrs. Cleveland will stop at
Mrs Mary Scanlon's residence, where
she will be given reception.
The President will be driven to the
Merchants Exchange, where reception
will be rendered him. In the afternoon,
he will be driven through the business
portion of the city and in the evening
will meet Mrs. Cleveland at the Lindell
Hotel, where they will remain the rest
of the stay. There will be public
reception in the evening, visit to the
exposition, and a review OF the grand
parade.